Swalwell Trolled the Hell Out of Donald Trump During Hunter Biden Deposition: ‘Has Your Father Ever… Been Fined $355 Million?’
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) questioned Hunter Biden during a closed-door deposition on Wednesday and used his time to troll former President Donald Trump.
The House of Representatives is continuing its formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, and or more than a year, the House Oversight Committee has been probing the business activities of his son Hunter Biden. Republicans allege the elder Biden illicitly benefitted from his son’s business dealings, though they have yet to furnish proof.
On Thursday, the Oversight Committee released the deposition transcript, which shows Swalwell appearing to have a grand old time at Trump’s expense while questioning Hunter Biden. The lawmaker’s line of questioning invoked unsavory facts about the former president that do not apply to the current occupant of the White House. Among them is a $355 million judgment that a New York judge hit Trump with earlier this month after the ex-president was found liable for fraud.
Here are Swalwell’s questions and Biden’s responses:
SWALWELL: Any time your father was in government, prior to the Presidency or before, did he ever operate a hotel?
BIDEN: No, he has never operated a hotel.
SWALWELL: So he’s never operated a hotel where foreign nationals spent millions at that hotel while he was in office?
BIDEN: No, he has not.
SWALWELL: Did your father ever employ in the Oval Office any direct family member to also work in the Oval Office?
BIDEN: My father has never employed any direct family members, to my knowledge.
SWALWELL: While your father was President, did anyone in the family receive 41 trademarks from China?
BIDEN: No.
SWALWELL: As President and the leader of the party, has your father ever tried to install as the chairperson of the party a daughter-in-law or anyone else in the family?
BIDEN: No. And I don’t think that anyone in my family would be crazy enough to want to be the chairperson of the DNC.
SWALWELL: Has your father ever in his time as an adult been fined $355 million by any State that he worked in?
BIDEN: No, he has not, thank God.
SWALWELL: Anyone in your family ever strike a multibillion dollar deal with the Saudi Government while your father was in office?
BIDEN: No.
SWALWELL: That’s all I’ve got.
The “multibillion dollar deal with Saudi Government” Swalwell references is almost certainly an allusion to the $2 billion investment received by the firm of Jared Kushner from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. Kushner served as a White House adviser to his father-in-law. That money was invested a few months after Trump and Kushner exited the White House. The investment was made over the objections of the fund’s managers, who were overridden by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a Kushner ally.
